The Center for NanoMedicine(CNM) was established by the Korean government to ambitiously promote basic science in Korea and is the first worldclass basic science research institute in Korea that was established by after closely benchmarking Max Planck Institute in Germany

We, the director and faculties of the Center for NanoMedicine(CNM), strive to promote the highest quality of research that will nurture the current global basic science and generate new opportunities for the future. We pursue excellence in science and our goal is to advance the frontiers of knowledge and to train the tomorrow’s leading scientists.

The Center for NanoMedicine(CNM) aims to establish a foundation for future oriented convergence science and to create new science with themes of nanomaterials and biological systems. Its goal is to introduce new possibilities to the scientific community by developing nanomaterials capable of monitoring and understanding biological phenomena with ultimate precision and accuracy.

The Center for NanoMedicine(CNM) provides a cutting edge education and training in nanoscience and nanomedicine. It offers three types of education programs to the undergraduate students in order to provide true learning experiences: Nobel Series, Science Mentoring Program, and Enrichment Program.

The Center for NanoMedicine(CNM) hosts a variety of events from academia symposium to leadership seminars in order to foster scientific leaders with global minds at the highest intellectual level. It also engages in cooperative programs with worldwide research Institutions and universities to expand future opportunities.

Research Highlights

The Conversion of Electromagnetic Energy into Heat by Nanoparticles

The conversion of electromagnetic energy into heat by nanoparticles has the potential to be a powerful, non-invasive technique for biotechnology applications such as drug release, disease treatment and remote control of single cell functions, but poor conversion efficiencies have hindered practical applications so far. In this Letter, we demonstrate a significant increase in the efficiency of magnetic thermal induction by nanoparticles.We take advantage of the exchange coupling between a magnetically hard core and magnetically soft shell to tune the magnetic properties of the nanoparticle and maximize the specific loss power, which is a gauge of the conversion efficiency. The optimized core–shell magnetic nanoparticles have specific loss power values that are an order of magnitude larger than conventional iron-oxide nanoparticles. We also perform an antitumour study in mice, and find that the therapeutic efficacy of these nanoparticles is superior to that of a common anticancer drug.